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rooftop delivery bays might become a thing

> But if we could build an uninterpretable machine learning model that beats any hand-built traditional ‘physics’ model, would it really be physics?

At that point I wonder if it would be possible to feed that uninterpretable model back into another model that makes sense of it all and outputs sets of equations that humans could understand.

Thanks for releasing, I've been looking for something exactly like this to help plan out my PCT hike. Google Earth Pro for linux has become less usable with each release.

> A typical American might read hundreds of books over the course of their life

Probably only if you count books like green eggs and ham.

I realize it's allegorical in nature, but one of the conclusions made in the article is

> Reaching the absolute information is individual and simply any human being is able to achieve that.

Is that a reasonable conclusion? I'm curious how this jives with the 'on the shoulders of giants' concept that we've built a lot of our modern knowledge on.

They were extinct in the wild in the late 80s. There's under 500 in the wild now. Of all the things that might trigger people, I suppose condor extinction is pretty understandable.

Cats and wind turbines present dangers to different types of birds, with the turbines being a danger to larger raptors including condors - so I think your comparison is an oversimplification of the issue, even though I'm a proponent of wind power in general.

Similar story. Was in a caravan with friends on a road trip and apple maps had us going onto a dirt road to save time. We go overlanding a lot, so dirt roads aren't weird, but we decided to stop and double check before proceeding too far on the road.

About a minute later, a border control agent pulls up next to us and starts with the standard interrogation. Turns out, apple maps had been telling people to use a dirt road to circumvent a border control checkpoint - which according to the officer was a felony. We proceeded back onto the pavement and through the checkpoint where they waved us through. The dirt road wouldn't have been faster at all, so it was puzzling why it was giving those directions.

also, just doing your research on any platform other than Amazon helps.

Agreed - but if they're no longer able to effectively testify in court, they'd presumably no longer be able to do real police work - at best they'd be put in some administrative duty.

True enough - and sadly this complexity and subtlety is sometimes taken advantage of in order to create propaganda, such as to create sympathy for various issues.

I wonder why this mentality doesn't apply to other parts of society, like our police forces (i.e. shut a department down when an officer kills an innocent), or corporations that cause death/disaster? Is it because in those situations, the deaths aren't too big a price to pay?